Feeling a bit peckish this week, fancy heading out for a meal? Well it just so happens you’re in luck. As of yesterday- Monday 26th April- the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants were announced, deliberated by over 800 food critics, chefs and restaurateurs a lift of the 50 best places to dine this year was announced. It was decided that the finest place to eat on the planet is restaurant ‘Noma’ in Copenhagen, Denmark. The cuisine is a refined Nordic and Scandinavian interpretation supervised by head chef René Redzepi.
The USA did well this year with three restaurants in the top ten, ‘Alinea’ in Chicago was best places for the US with 7th; the UK’s ‘The Fat Duck’ came in an impressive 3rd with Italy also claiming a top ten boast. Spain however continue to dominate the crème de le crème of fine cuisine with four top ten placing with last year’s winner ‘El Bulli’ losing the top spot and slipping to second.

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Forget about beer or wine being the most important drink for the Great British holidaying public.  According to a survey carried out by supermarket giants ASDA, it seems more than 43% of holidaymakers can’t live without their daily cuppa, and pack their own tea-bags to take on holiday.

Although it’s become increasingly easier to buy British brand tea bags in main holiday resorts in Spain, Greece and Turkey, the average price for a packet of tea bags can be as much as 50% more than at home.

It also seems holidaymakers from East Anglia are the UK’s greatest char champions as some 60% admit to taking tea bags on holiday while 45% also take biscuits (something to dunk).

But it’s not just tea-bags that get packed into the check-in luggage.  The survey also found that Brits can’t live without pork pies, marmite or ketchup for their annual break away.

Looks like certain members of the British royal family can learn a lesson from Queen Sofia of Spain when it comes to cost-cutting.

Reported in today’s  Daily Mail, the Spanish Monarch has taken a Ryanair flight from Spanish city Santander in Spain to London Standsted on Sunday evening.

Her flight, costing just £13  is in stark contrast to £330,000 bill Prince Charles ran up on a trip to New York in 2005.

Lets hope she remembered to print out her boarding pass though – apparently Ryanair are now charging extra for that too.

It seems the UK is stealing Spain’s sunshine, with temperatures in Bournemouth topping those in experienced this weekend in Barcelona, Istanbul and Tenerife. Beaches across the south coast were packed with sun-worshippers, while surfers flocked to North Devon.

Meteogroup – which provides forecasts for the Press Association has already said that it seems summer has arrived in the UK, with warmer than normal temperatures.  According to today’s Daily Mail, thermometers in the Solent area peaked at almost 27C (80F) making this a great end to the sunniest May for almost a decade.

The team here at Hotelopia is pretty international.  So we asked our own native Andalusian Rebeca Gonzalez from Hotelopia’s Product Department for her recommendations to see this sizzling southern Spanish region.

Check out her Andalusia travel itinerary here and get inspired.